Maryanne

It's In the Cards

It's in the cards! Ericka wrote to Ask Maryanne: I have two questions. 1) My husband and I are moving to California to start a business. Do you see this being a positive move towards our goal? 2) Lately I have had the feeling that I need to discover myse... Read >

What to do when confronted by The Pink Elephant

Every now and again you come across a situation in your life that blows your hair back, your skirt up or...just blows. For example: you find out the person you’re seriously considering spending the rest of your life with isn’t interested in a long term re... Read >

When Opposites Attract

Remember the days of that sizzling hot/heart-thumping/I’ve never felt this way before/best sex you’ve ever had in your life/can’t eat, can’t sleep, “can’t live without" relationship that you had? Census bureau says it probably turned into a baby, or two..... Read >

The mind is a wonderful servant but a terrible master~

Finding out who people are: seems like it would be relatively easy, primarily given that your body registers more than 90% of all perceptible information pre-cognitively. As a human being your internal navigational system, your intuition and senses, were ... Read >

Can a bad relationship make you sick?

Most of us don't have to think to hard to conjure injurious feelings about a relationship gone bad. And while the pain and grief due to botched relationship vary from one individual to the next, we need to explore our baseline beliefs about everything rat... Read >

Can your friends or lovers be holding you back?

I can remember getting what for me was my first big break in my budding media career. I squealed with delight when the producer called from a popular syndicated radio show asking to interview me. My heart pounded, my mouth went dry ~ I had worked so hard ... Read >

Sustainable relationships

If you have had a few relationships you know what I mean by "sustainability," especially ones that have been a source of pain or suffering to some degree. (Some of which have compelled you to dispose of them by almost any means, organic or not.) But what ... Read >

Got friends?

My mother told me I was lucky if I could count all my real friends on one hand! Must have been fifteen or so years ago now, when it occurred to me after a string of disappointing intimate relationships that maybe she was rightâ€"again. That it might be... Read >

Aren’t in the relationship of your dreams? Find out why!

Here's the deal. Most of us approach relationship like drunken sailors, intoxicated with the ideas and fantasies we have about relationship as opposed to the sobering reality of them, and desperate (or lonely, as the case may be) like your ship has just c... Read >

I feel the need in speed~

Here's the deal; the facts are in. At least 50% of marriages don't make itâ€"which, if you're a gambler, is slightly better than a crap shoot - this is what I told RadarOnline.com, when asked for a comment about Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom's marriage.... Read >

Develop great Mate-dar!

So, whatever the reason, you're on the prowl for a significant other. Maybe you feel you're ready for a commitment. Maybe you're looking for companionship. So you feel like your "Mate-dar" (your ability to suss out a great mate) is in full force, turned u... Read >

RAT, Relationship Aptitude Test: How to smell a Rat—or find out if you are one!

I went to a memorial this week. A friend passed away suddenly; a shock to us all, but to none more than to his bride of twenty-some years. My heart went out to this brave woman and her three children who watched her life change dramatically without any wa... Read >

How to tell if someone is a leaker or really likes you!

He loves me, he loves me not, he loves me… and her too? I can't tell you how many times friends or clients have complained about their disenchanting, painful encounters with "leakers." Men and women who seem so great at first, almost to good to be true ... Read >

You can’t handle the truth…

Many years ago, having been married a brief time, I came home after having had a strong, yet curious, experience. One I was both eager and frightened to tell my husband about, knowing what I had to say was considered a taboo subject. Eager, because I was ... Read >

10 Things you can do when you are lonely but not ready for a relationship (part 2)

Being alone can be, well, LONELY! And most of us - even those who like to be alone - don't really like to be lonely. But what can we do about it? Many of us find ourselves alone, and lonely, for a reason: our previous relationship just ended, we've tried ... Read >